Need help keeping up with news and updates in the social media world? Let us do the work for you! In our weekly wrap up post, we share 5 must-read articles for small business strategy.This week’s list includes articles on using hashtags, content strategy tips, using Twitter and G+ together, and more…
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1. How Hashtags Work on Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr, and Flickr
Ann Smarty has put together a terrific resource on the Moz blog to help you understand how hashtags work on the major social networks. I recommend saving this one as a go-to resource when working on your hashtag strategy!
2. IFTTT: How to use IFTTT for Social Media Automation
This is a fantastic guide for using IFTTT (If This Then That) to automate some of your social media tasks! Ian Cleary also includes some favorite “recipes”, so check them out as well.
Do you use IFTTT to save time? I have a few recipes set up and will be exploring some of the ones shared in this post.
3. 13 Simple Questions to Help You Draft a Winning Content Strategy
Get this free resource from Copyblogger and use it to create your content marketing strategy.
4. Twitter and Google+ – your new content marketing strategy
This article by Dustin Stout helps explain why you may want to consider spending more time on your Twitter and G+ strategies. Tweets are once again being indexed by Google, and as Dustin writes:
“Your Twitter activity is now working for you twofold. Not only is it helping you gain exposure within the Twitter network, but it’s helping you break into search results. Just like Google+!”
5. Facebook Adds A New Way To Sell Items In Groups
by Sarah Perez on TechCrunch. If you manage a “For Sale” Group on Facebook, then you need to check out the new features being rolled out. You can nominate your Group to get the new features (see the link in the article).
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